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Term Paper Title	Macbeth: Imagery Of Animal Behavior And Class Status Advances
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Macbeth: Imagery of Animal Behavior and Class Status Advances

        In Macbeth, the imagery of animals behavior and class status advances
the theme of animals in relation to human characteristics.  The examples
discussed in my paper will make it quite clear that this imagery is evident,
throughout the play.

     In Act 1 sc. 3 line 8, the first witch chants and says that the sailor
is the master of the Tiger.  The witch is comparing the man to a Tiger. The
tiger is a very good animal and is near the top of the Elizabethan World Picture.
Hence the man is   good.  Furthermore the witch say's that she herself is like
a rat without a tail.  Thus she is missing something important.  The witch is
incomplete, just like the rat.  Furthermore I believe she is hiding something
because when you are missing something you are apt to be very self conscious and
hide it.  In addition the rat is veer low on the chain of being.

     The next passage is Act 1 sc. 7 line 49.  In this passage Lady Macbeth
is quoted saying “like the poor cat I ‘th' adage” (1, vii., 49).  That means “
the cat who eats fish but will not get his feet wet ” (Folgers, p 40).  Lady
Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is like the cat because he wants to become
king but he won't get his hands bloody.  However Lady Macbeth would find someone
els...

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